The Story of Writing - Couverture souple

Robinson, Andrew

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0500286604 ISBN 13 : 9780500286609

Editeur : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2007

Synopsis

Writing is one of humanity's greatest inventions.Without it there would be no history and no civilization as we know it. But how, when and where did writing evolve? In a succinct, absorbing and well-illustrated text, Andrew Robinson discusses the history of decipherment and then each of the major writing systems in turn, from cuneiform and Egyptian and Mayan hieroglyphs to alphabets and the scripts of China and Japan. An invaluable guide to the world's major writing systems, The Story of Writing is a book to read for both pleasure and enlightenment.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Andrew Robinson is the author of twenty-five books in the arts and sciences, nine of them on aspects of Indian history and culture. They include two definitive biographies: Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye, described by V. S. Naipaul as 'an extraordinarily good, detailed and selfless book', and the coauthored Rabindranath Tagore: The Myriad-Minded Man. He holds degrees from Oxford University and the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, has been a Visiting Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge, and is currently a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0500286604
• ISBN 13: 9780500286609
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 232
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• Personne responsable: non disponible